Statue of Denmark Vesey at Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C. Formerly enslaved, Vesey bought his freedom with money he was allowed to earn and winnings from a lottery ticket, and he planned an ...

MUSC is building two towers at an old cemetery site where Denmark Vesey and many others were buried. A historian urges the ...

Denmark Vesey was a freeman who organized a slave rebellion that was thwarted when news of it was leaked. He ultimately was hanged. A bicentennial celebration was held earlier in July for Vesey.

The Denmark Vesey monument in Hampton Park in Charleston, S.C., on Jun. 23, 2015. Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post—Getty Images. By Olivia B. Waxman. March 15, 2017 4:53 PM EDT.

Denmark Vesey, a co-founder of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine people were shot dead on Wednesday night, began life as a slave and died ...

The name Denmark Vesey is trending on Twitter after a gunman killed nine people Wednesday at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church in Charleston, S.C.. Vesey, an abolitionist and former slave ...

In 1799, Denmark Vesey won $1,500 in the East Bay Lottery. He spent part of the money, $600, to purchase his freedom. Denmark Vesey monument unveiled before hundreds ...

Like Denmark Vesey’s tormentors, he believed that African-Americans were plotting wanton violence against white people. For most of our history, of course, it’s been precisely the opposite. But in the ...

But efforts to “remember Denmark Vesey” have faced opposition for 200 years, and even today some in Charleston actively—and sometimes violently—resist public recognition of his name.